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Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts
July 1999–October 2000

Nancy E. Green, guest curator, is chief curator and curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.


Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) profoundly influenced the fine and decorative arts in America at the turn of the century. Curated by Nancy E. Green, this exhibition examined Dow’s far-reaching effects as both an innovative artist and one of America's eminent art educators. Among the approximately 125 objects included in this survey of works by Dow, his students, and his colleagues were tiles and pottery, woodblock prints, photographs, furniture, and textiles by such artists at Pedro de Lemos, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber.
 
Exhibition Itinerary: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (July 13–September 19, 1999); Terra Museum of American Art (October 8, 1999–January 2, 2000); Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe (March 10–June 18, 2000); and Blanden Memorial Art Museum (July 8–October 1, 2000).

The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts. Support has been provided by the National Patrons of the AFA. It is a project of ART ACCESS II, a program of the AFA with major support from the Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.

Frances H. Gearhart
High Blues, n.d.
Color woodcut
9 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.
Collection Stephen Gray